The Home Office spent at least £830 million between 2003 and 2015 on the e-borders programme and its successors, delivering some valuable new capabilities, but has so far failed to deliver the full vision, according to a new report from the National Audit Office.
With the recent announcement that Gov.uk has received over one billion hits since its launch, it would seem that the push to navigate people away from the phone lines and onto their devices to access services has been a success.
In this week’s Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne placed a heavy emphasis on the digitisation of government departments and life in general in England to create greater efficiencies and a better experience for the people accessing government services.
Yesterday’s spending review placed a pretty hefty burden on the new, digital HMRC to improve its services and create huge efficiency savings in the process. Here, Kevin Reed, editor of our sister title Accountancy Age, takes a look at the task ahead for the tax man.
Worcestershire County Council is well on its way to having 100 per cent of its services online by 2017. How are they planning to hit this ambitious goal?
Cloud computing is bringing enormous benefits to the UK public sector by enabling the delivery of secure, agile and highly cost-effective services. Has the EU Court of Justice’s has Safe Harbor ruling changed all that?
The government’s GOV.UK website has now reached the milestone of two billion visits, three years after it launched.
Cybersecurity hits are coming fast, with scarcely a week going by without a massive hack. To tackle this, the UK is doubling the amount it spends on cybersecurity over the next five years. This comes amid warnings that terrorist groups such as ISIS are working on building their capability to launch cyber-attacks.
The government’s drive to encourage digital innovation is hitting a snag on silicon roundabout, thanks to rocketing rent prices, according to research from accountancy group UHY Hacker Young.
Small businesses up and down the country have benefited from the governments Broadband Connection Voucher scheme, with SMEs gaining on average £1,300 a year in profit through the initiative.
